Bucket for m easu ri nq-wh ee ls of carburetors



(No Model.) I

W. M. JACKSON.

BUCKET FOR MEASURING WHEELS OF OARBURETORS. No. 309,466. Patented Dec.16, 1884.

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\VALTER M. JACKSON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE lSLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THESTANDARD HYDRO CARBON lliACl-UNE COMPANY, OF NElV YORK.

BUCKET FQR PdlEASURlNG Vl/HEEL3 OF fiARBURETOFlS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 809,466, dated December16, 1884:.

Application filed January 10, 1884. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER M. J) OKSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckets forMeasuring-lVheels of Carburetors, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to certain improvements in buckets formcasuringwvheels of carburetors, and is designed to produce a bucketthat shall measure accurately, and shall have no waste or dripping inthe delivery from the bucket to the distributing-conduit,which saiddelivery shall be certain. To RCCOHID] ish these objects, a device isemployed similar to the one illustrated in the accompanying drawing,which representsalongitudinalsection through the fluid-chamber of acarburetor, and to which drawing reference will be had in the lbll 1wing description of the invention.

A. designates the liquid-containi ug chamber, within which is journaleda wheel, B, driven by the usual mechanism. Secured to the surface ofthis wheel is a series of buckels, C. These buckets have a rectangularback, bottom, and front; but the top, a, slants upward from the rearforward, and extends about hall'- way toward the front, or thereabout.The

front 0 of the bucket is of about the same height as the interior of theback, and has formed integral with it and projecting from it forward anddownward a flat or rectangular lip, (I, as shown. The sides I) of thebucket have their upper edges of the same general upward slantof thetops, and continue so till even with the front,when they take a suddendownward slant to meet the end of the lip, the sides also projectingcoincident with the bottom of the lip,

as shown.

Experiment has taught that buckets of this construction will dip adefinite quantity so long as it does not fall below the month of thesaid bucket, the said mouth being formed in the upper front edgeby theshort inclined top.

The inclined top and continued sides prevent i all possibility ofspilling the fluid by jarring or otherwise. It also allows the quickpassage of air into the bucket while the liquid is dispour properly. lipprevent spilling, as they are placed at right charging. Further,while itfacilitates the in ward passage of the air and prevents accidentalspilling, it allows a higher front or retaining wall, which prevents thetoo early dis charge of the liquid. The lip directs the flow andprevents its running down the front of the bucket before the bucket getssufficient tilt to The sides forming part of the angles to the bottom ofthe said lip. If the lip were concave, the front could not be made sohigh, and consequently the discharge would be too soon and only from thecenter, and much of the liquid would cling to the sides and thus destroythe accuracy of the device. As before stated, the buckets areconstructed to hold a definite quantity, and they are arranged upon thesurface of the wheel, so as to completely upset over thedistributingconduit I), thus completely draining them andleaving 110level or semi-level surfaces for the oil to cling to.

lit is known that buckets have been devised for this purpose andarranged similarly but for obvious reasons none of them measureaccurately, either spilling or (lischarging before reaching thedistributirig-conduit, or having level or nearly-level surfacesthat donot properly (1 rain, and thus interfering materially with the certaintyand accuracy of a device where the said certainty and accuracy formvital features.

Experience has taught that too little fluid will damage the illuminatingqualities of the gas withwhich it is mixed, and that too much will dothe same, besides causing the gas to smoke, and also wasteful, soaccuracy in measuring and in delivery is absolutely a necessity to theoperation of a carburetor. In the bucket above described these elements,it has been demonstrated, are embodied. The lips, being inclineddmvnward, will carry the drippings into the distributor even after thefront wall has passed it, by virtue of the adhesive attraction of thelipand the oil.

Having described the device, what I claim 1s In a carburetor, thecombination, with a wheel revolving around a central distributingconduit, of buckets relatively arranged on the surface of the saidwheel, so as to upset over the conduit, eachbuckethuving 2t slanting toppartly covering it, a front of about the same height as the back, andhaving integral with In testimony whereof I aifix mysignaturc in it anoutwardly and downwardly projecting I presence of two Witnesses. lip,and having sides slanting on their upper VALTER M J KOKS-ON liquid tothe conduit and there delivering it IO without Waste.

edges corresponding to the top, till, reaching the plane of the front,they slant downward XVitnesses:

and, projecting, form the sides of the lip, the CHAS. H. J AOKSON, wholebucket carrying a definite quantity of l W'ILLIE 'WILSON.

